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Lisa Schlaff teaches Gemara and Tanakh at the SAR High School in Riverdale, N.Y.

Rena Fruchter is Resource and Arts Consultant at the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning of Greater Washington. From 2002-2005 she was the Director of the Deborah Lerner Gross Jewish Cultural Arts Center of the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland, where she continues to act as Programming Consultant.

Naomi Lawson is the administrative director of the Pelech School in Jerusalem.

Rochelle Furstenberg is a Jerusalem– based writer and critic. She has written extensively on Hebrew literature in a variety of books and periodicals, and has a regular column on Israeli life and culture in Hadassah Magazine.

Marisa Newman is the co-owner of Newman Popiashvili Gallery in Chelsea in NewYork City. She received her Master of Art in art history from Columbia University.

Sylvia A. Herskowitz is the Director of Yeshiva University Museum in New York. The Museum was founded in 1973 and is now located in the Center for Jewish History. It presents interdisciplinary exhibitions on Jewish life, past and present.

Na’ama Batya Lewin is a photographer and video artist who is on the faculty of the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York, Washington, Chicago and California. Ms. Lewin lives in suburban Maryland.

With more than 20 million books in print, Faye Kellerman is the author of eighteen novels including the Peter and Rena Decker detective series. She and her husband Jonathan Kellerman live in Los Angeles and New Mexico.

Anat Zuria is a filmmaker who lives in Jerusalem. Her films, Tehora and Mekudeshet, have both won international prizes.

Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist and playwright who has lived in Jerusalem since 1971. This piece draws on the address that she gave on receiving the Leah Ain Globe award from Mevoi Satum in 2005.